Icon Request: icon-church

[GermanKiwi]

I'd love to have a church icon - depicting a church building. This would be very useful for using with the countless church websites that exist.

Something like this would do the trick for me:

This one looks really good at all sizes, including when it's small, and it has a nice mix of both black and white, which is similar to many of the other Font Awesome icons.

And I like that the cross doesn't stick up too high above the top of the roof - I've seen some other church icons which have a very tall steeple above the roof, but that makes the church building itself, below the steeple, comparatively smaller which isn't so good. The one I've depicted above allows the church building to take up the majority of the height of the image, with just a small bit of the height taken up by the cross on top. So it's closer in size to the existing "fa-home" icon, in terms of the height of the two buildings.

I would, however, prefer the cross to have square edges rather than rounded edges - I think that would look better. I'd also suggest giving the upper window square edges too, to make its edges more defined especially in smaller sizes.

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UPDATE:

@zuck suggested an alternate style based on the existing Home icon, which I really like. You can follow our discussion in the thread below.

Therefore I'd like to request something like this icon below, rather than my previous suggestion above. I think this one fits much better with the overall style of Font Awesome:

[iBelieve]

+1

[GermanKiwi]

FYI, I've found a much nicer-looking example icon for a church, which I've replaced in the image I've pasted into the top post above.

I've edited the top post to explain why I think this example icon is much better. I think it's also a bit more realistic looking, which I prefer, particularly with the style of the front entranceway and the cross being on top of the roof. The previous example icon I had suggested basically looked just like the Font Awesome "fa-home" icon with a cross on the front (under the roof) - so it still looked more like a house than a church. So this new one I'm suggesting looks way better. :)

[bdecent]

I could really use a church icon as well! +1

[kueckermann]

+1 This would be helpful, thanks!

[CasiOo]

+1 Really need this icon :) !

[atarrisse]

+1 !!!

[maxpsq]

Nice idea. I think it could be done just modifying the fa-home icon, changing the door in a cross and getting rid of the chimney. By the way, the example by GermnKiwi is nicer.

[giacomomacri]

+1 .. would be really helpful.. thanks!

[mikesir87]

+1 to this. Would be nice to have both one with the cross, as well as one with just a steeple, as not all religions use the cross.

[GermanKiwi]

No, I think two church icons is asking too much, and is not necessary. Just to clarify: when I refer to a "church" here, I'm specifically and exclusively meaning a "Christian house of worship" (that's the dictionary definition of the word church), as opposed to the place of worship of other religions, which are referred to by other names (eg. Muslim mosque or Jewish synagogue or Hindu temple). The Christian religion is universally symbolised by the cross, hence my suggested/requested icon has the cross on top.

If you want to request an icon to symbolise the places of worship of other religions (eg. a mosque or synagogue), I would suggest starting separate threads for them, along with your own suggested icons. And in any case, mosques and synagogues typically look architecturally quite different from the stereotypical church building represented in my church icon above. A "one size fits all" icon wouldn't work here, IMO.

[mikesir87]

Sure. I understand your thought and agree with it. My thought was that not even all Christian religions use the cross as a symbol of their church (such as mine). But, again, it's just a symbol, so I could make do as well.

[GermanKiwi]

You're right - indeed there are one or two Christian denominations or sects that do not display the cross on, or within, their church buildings. However, as noted by Wikipedia, the cross is "the best-known symbol of Christianity", and certainly the most universally-used and recognised symbol of Christianity, to the point that virtually anyone - including atheists and members of other religions - will instantly recognise it and understand which religion it stands for. And that's what we're aiming for with this icon - universal understanding and recognition of what is being depicted or symbolised by the icon - specifically, a house of worship which belongs to the Christian religion - a church. So including a cross on top of it is therefore the most obvious, straight-forward, clear-cut, and non-misunderstandable way to achieve this recognition. Anyone and everyone who sees this icon will immediately understand that it depicts a Christian church building. As you rightly said, it's just a symbol, and therefore it's okay if it differs from the way some church buildings actually do look in practice. In conclusion, I think we're both on the same page here! :)

[danieljue]

+1, with cross on top. I need icons of this nature for news reports dealing with violence against various houses of worship. This would complement the ones I need for mosques and synagogues.

[maddhatter]

+1

[StellaLuc]

Any movement on this? I'm working on a church website and this would be perfect. Let us know. Thanks.

[ghadeer-rahhal]

+1

[sebastienguay]

+1

[sealdriver]

+1

[yieme]

+1

[millerbrother2]

+1

[boydspace]

+1

[G-Driver]

+1

[mirdala]

+1

[GwenLoguir]

+1

[wildfireheart]

+1

[detroitnc]

+1

[sykaeh]

+1

[faustomorales]

+1

[wolfie90]

+1

[karkkaz]

+1

[iAmSimplicit]

+1

[apperside]

+1

[didoulr]

+1

[jonatascastro12]

+1

[Daut]

+1

[jsc3582]

+1

[jsc3582]

Need this one!!

[misterch0c]

+1

[imjohnbo]

@GermanKiwi, where did the church icon you uploaded come from? May it be used under a certain license? By cropping and inverting the colors, it is exactly what I need. Just want to give credit where credit's due.

[GermanKiwi]

It's a generic church icon that I found online somewhere, but I'm afraid I don't remember where or whether it was licensed. It was not part of any corporate or trademarked logo though. And I believe it's generic enough that it could be reproduced by Font Awesome (and in any case, Font Awesome already includes many other trademarked icons anyway, like Facebook and Google etc.)

[imjohnbo]

Thanks anyway. It's not Font Awesome, but in the meantime...

[TechWilk]

+1

[lyhil]

+1 for something more like cathedral like https://d30y9cdsu7xlg0.cloudfront.net/png/11885-200.png or http://comps.canstockphoto.com/can-stock-photo_csp5039356.jpg you know, with this long low part and towers above it

[GermanKiwi]

@lyhil you should create a new issue for that, then, as it's a separate icon from the one being requested here.

[keithics]

+1

[circlecube]

+1

[georgecoca]

+1

[roddharris]

+1

[heyjoecampbell]

+1

[vineethkrishnan]

+1